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Arvine Wales letter to his son, Arvine C. Wales, August 27, 1842

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Massillon Au 27 1842
Dear Son, yours of 15 & 22d have both come safely to hand in due course just before receiving yours of 15th, I had writte a long letter and sent it to Rutland Mass, also 3 gazetts on the receipt of yours. I wrote to the Post master at Rutland to mail the letter to you to Palmyra whether he will forward the news paper or not I cannot say. From Wensday evening to Sat. afternoon we have had a long and steady rain. the after feed is very fine and shold the frost keep off for 3 weeks we shall get heavy cover potatoes & sugar Beets. Our red peaches began to mellow a week ago on Tuesday last. The girls [illegible] 2 or 3 bu but since the rian they have all got ripe. the rischest I ever eat. I have eat more fruit than I have eat at this time of the year for the last 10 years and green corn twice a day. we have had Succotash. These foru weeks, 3 or 4 kinds of our early corn has become too hard, wheat the last week in large quantities brought market, 65 per bu. The whigs have had a large convention at Newark at least 20,000 met one procession reached from Granville to Newark a distance of 5 miles on the 15th. there will be an other at New Lisbon on the 9th of next mo. Jundge King of Warre, Ex Senator Morris & Saml Lewis are to be at Massillon to lecture. They are 3rd party men and all of them men of first rate talents. I received a newspaper one day last week you sent me charged with .94 cents postage. Budd of course reduced it ot newspaper post. You should envelop papers with one end open. He examined every margin to see if there was writing. Our country was never healthier ac Dr. Smith sais there is not business enought to more than half to keep one Physician in employ. He yesterday had to get to Massillon. Emily's child begins to have a good appetite and is now likely to recover. All the family's well.
Affectionately Arvine Wales

D-430-1
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Massillon Au 27 1842
Dear Son, yours of 15 & 22d have both come safely to hand in due course just before receiving yours of 15th, I had writte a long letter and sent it to Rutland Mass, also 3 gazetts on the receipt of yours. I wrote to the Post master at Rutland to mail the letter to you to Palmyra whether he will forward the news paper or not I cannot say. From Wensday evening to Sat. afternoon we have had a long and steady rain. the after feed is very fine and shold the frost keep off for 3 weeks we shall get heavy cover potatoes & sugar Beets. Our red peaches began to mellow a week ago on Tuesday last. The girls [illegible] 2 or 3 bu but since the rian they have all got ripe. the rischest I ever eat. I have eat more fruit than I have eat at this time of the year for the last 10 years and green corn twice a day. we have had Succotash. These foru weeks, 3 or 4 kinds of our early corn has become too hard, wheat the last week in large quantities brought market, 65 per bu. The whigs have had a large convention at Newark at least 20,000 met one procession reached from Granville to Newark a distance of 5 miles on the 15th. there will be an other at New Lisbon on the 9th of next mo. Jundge King of Warre, Ex Senator Morris & Saml Lewis are to be at Massillon to lecture. They are 3rd party men and all of them men of first rate talents. I received a newspaper one day last week you sent me charged with .94 cents postage. Budd of course reduced it ot newspaper post. You should envelop papers with one end open. He examined every margin to see if there was writing. Our country was never healthier ac Dr. Smith sais there is not business enought to more than half to keep one Physician in employ. He yesterday had to get to Massillon. Emily's child begins to have a good appetite and is now likely to recover. All the family's well.
Affectionately Arvine Wales